lost is over

everyone's talking about the final episode of lost now, what did it mean etc. i thought it was one of the best episodes of the series. there was a lot of thought put into it, not just some half assed cheap copout ending. Jack fullfills his destiny to save the island from destruction, a place he's wanted to leave for so long, then dies on it. how poetic. knowing that is going to make all the "we gotta get off this stupid island" stuff from the first 3 seasons hard to watch now. if there was any problem with the finale it was that it should have happened a year ago. but for whatever reason season 5 got made which introduced a lot of weird shit that didn't necessarily impact the final season much. What did having teh losties time travel to teh days of the darma beginning mean in the end as they all simply wound up back in their own time anyway and then got back to business trying to leave the island as usual. *shrugs*

theories are coming in as to whether the entire series was a kind of dream of jacks just as he was about to enter heaven as is seen in the finale. i like the idea that when the plane crashed, they all just died, and teh series is about a bunch of dead people seeking redemption for their sins before they go to heaven. not a bad message in my mind, though the usual anti-religious folks will piss all over any kind of religious subtext.

as for jack's son. i think his son was his father, just younger the whole time. its made clear that jacob can turn into a kid at will. so in the flash sideways verse christian shepard turned into a kid to keep an eye on jack's soul before he finally died and joined him, or something. Damn good show though, like the official seinfeld of teh 2000s, a show that will go down as a classic. well done. and thank you for all the bikini clad shots of kate.